Jesus cried out 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' to express His anguish and to fulfill the prophetic scriptures.
When Jesus cried out on the cross, it reflected both His deep anguish as He bore the weight of sin and the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy, specifically Psalm 22. This cry was not merely a question for information, as Christ, being fully divine, understood the divine plan that necessitated His forsakenness. Rather, it served to reveal to us the magnitude of His suffering and the intense separation from the Father that He experienced as our substitute. His forsakenness symbolizes the culmination of divine wrath against sin, demonstrating that He took upon Himself all that was due to humanity. This moment affirms the seriousness of sin and the incredible cost of our redemption.
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